Recently my dance team has been weightlifting. We're done with all our competitions and have a lighter schedule regarding dance practices. We still perform at basketball games but we're getting ready for next year and the new season as well as trying to stay in shape. Weightlifting is very beneficial and really increases our strength and endurance. Weightlifting will only benefit us as we continue to workout and will help us in dance in many ways.
We currently workout in the weight room and weight lift on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's not a lot and I'd actually like to do it more, but for just starting out and weightlifting as a team I think it's really great and beneficial for all of us. Weightlifting is really going to help our Pom routine. Just with the amount of energy needed for it our endurance levels will be up and well be able to make it through our dance easier and be able to perform it better.
I have also started running on a regular basis, I've really wanted to get stronger and get physically fit for dance and the upcoming season. And running as well as weightlifting will do this for me. Since dance team is pretty much an all year sport it's important that I and we keep up our endurance and strength for next season. Losing our endurance and strength and skills we've gained this year will only hold us back and take up more time to regain in the future. I'm a long way from being where I would like to be both physical fitness wise and dance skill wise, but with a lot of hard work and determination anything is possible. Consistence with weightlifting and dancing will truly be the deciding factor in my efforts to succeed, so hopefully I don't burn out or lose my energy to accomplish my goals.
I strongly encourage weightlifting or any other strength activity that will help you get stronger and build endurance because the stronger you are the easier dancing and other activities will be later. Staying fit is very important as an athlete and the more you excersise and stay healthy the better it is for your body and the better you will become at your sport. Be safe while lifting though, get a trainer or spotter to help you if you're not sure exactly what you're doing. My dance team has a weightlifting coach that meets with us for a half an hour on Thesdays and Thusdays and shows and tells us what to do. He made a specific workout schedule for us specifically for dancers to help us get better. Weightlifting has a lot of benefits and I strongly encourage you to try it because I've found it really fun and if you enjoy a good workout you will too. (480)
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Dancing
Dancing on a team compared to dance at a studio is very different. Compared to the different techniques or styles that each prefer its hard to decide which one you would like to be apart of. Doing or being involved in both are super fun and I encourage everyone to get involved at their studio but as well as get involved on a team.
Dancing at a studio is very different in the way that its a separate organization, like a club, that competes against other studios. Where as a dance team is usually through a school and is less strict in ways that how things are run and organized. Both dancing at a studio and on a team at school requires money but dancing at a studio requires more money than dancing at school. Studios require more money because it's a separate organization, normally run privately.
Dance teams are less strict though. Studios have more styles and classes that you can attend, whereas dancing on a team mostly consists of styles of the sorts of jazz, poms, or hip hop. you don't spend as much time at dance team as you would at a studio or competition team at your studio. so I encourage you to do both because they are lots of fun and great experiences come from both.
Dancing at a studio is very different in the way that its a separate organization, like a club, that competes against other studios. Where as a dance team is usually through a school and is less strict in ways that how things are run and organized. Both dancing at a studio and on a team at school requires money but dancing at a studio requires more money than dancing at school. Studios require more money because it's a separate organization, normally run privately.
Dance teams are less strict though. Studios have more styles and classes that you can attend, whereas dancing on a team mostly consists of styles of the sorts of jazz, poms, or hip hop. you don't spend as much time at dance team as you would at a studio or competition team at your studio. so I encourage you to do both because they are lots of fun and great experiences come from both.
Start Early
Lots of good, experienced, and talented dancers started at an early age. Some as early as two or three have been dancing for most of their life time. Starting this young enables them to learn the skills and master them at an earlier age. Giving them more time to practice and get the feel for it. Time is a big factor in any sport ,or just in life in general, but the sooner they start the more experience they gain and the better they will become as a dancer. Involving your child in dance at an early age will only help them, and will do so in many ways.
Putting your child in dance at an early age will help and increase their motor skills, coordination, and balance. Exposing your child to a new environment that will help them grow and develop is only beneficial to your child and their childhood. Its important to expose your child and to encourage them to be physically active as they will carry that into their later years. your child develops a lot in there younger years, especially around two years old, they're learning how to walk and speak and a lot is happening in their development. A good way to increase their motor skills is to involve them in dance or gymnastics. This will help their coordination and develop them more as an athlete.
Children enjoy being physically active and with something to do with all that energy its a good way for them to channel their energy towards. Its also a good break for you from constantly dealing with their high energy and hyper personalities at such a young age. It a big milestone in every parents life to see their child grow up and what better way to do that than watch them in their first dance recital.
Hard work and experience is never to old to pass up. You want your child to grow up with a good work ethic and what better way to do that than to involve them in a sport or something they can enjoy and work hard at. The earlier you start them the more experience they gain and can only benefit them as they grow older. So I encourage you to not waste anymore time, enroll your child in dance classes today and watch them grow into wonderful athletes that are hard working and passionate about what they can do and accomplish. (428)
Is Dancing a Sport?
Is dancing a sport? That's the real question, same with cheerleading as well. We've often debated about this as young kids, trying to defend the name of dancing from other children's taunts of inferior sports. We remember those kids, especially boys who gave no thought to the hard work and dedication put into sports and activities done by girls. And still to this day dancing and cheerleading are looked upon as lesser sports than football or basketball, just because they're more women dominant sports.
Girls have always been looked upon as lesser than men. Since civilization began each gender has had it's role in life and the way that we live. Something's are kept a tradition and others changed as a result of the modern world that we claim to be. At an early age children are taught or notice the differences between genders and how they're treated differently. Girls because not thought of to be physically dominant are thought of as weaker and once sole role is to look good and take care of the house. This leads to debate, mostly between genders, of the physically demanding aspects of a sport and if it should be considered a sport. We all remember being teased by little boys when we were younger if dancing was a sport or not.
Dancing, as well as cheerleading, should be considered a sport because the physical demands are of equal or greater value to that of a man's sport. The word sport is described by dictionary.com as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. Dancing is equally a sport as anything else is because it requires skill and physical fitness. Endurance, flexibility, and health are all aspects of dance. You can get equally hurt in dance as well as in any other sport. Dancers have to use every single muscle in their body to complete intricate moves well and safely. Dance is a sport because it has competitions, judges, and sets of rules.
Some debate dance as being an art rather than a sport, but in all logic it is both. Dance is an expression of emotion, as art or any artist does, but dance requires physical ability to express this emotion. If dancers are considered athletes then how come dance isn't considered a sport. Dance is both an expression, an art, as well as a sport. (456)
Girls have always been looked upon as lesser than men. Since civilization began each gender has had it's role in life and the way that we live. Something's are kept a tradition and others changed as a result of the modern world that we claim to be. At an early age children are taught or notice the differences between genders and how they're treated differently. Girls because not thought of to be physically dominant are thought of as weaker and once sole role is to look good and take care of the house. This leads to debate, mostly between genders, of the physically demanding aspects of a sport and if it should be considered a sport. We all remember being teased by little boys when we were younger if dancing was a sport or not.
Dancing, as well as cheerleading, should be considered a sport because the physical demands are of equal or greater value to that of a man's sport. The word sport is described by dictionary.com as an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc. Dancing is equally a sport as anything else is because it requires skill and physical fitness. Endurance, flexibility, and health are all aspects of dance. You can get equally hurt in dance as well as in any other sport. Dancers have to use every single muscle in their body to complete intricate moves well and safely. Dance is a sport because it has competitions, judges, and sets of rules.
Some debate dance as being an art rather than a sport, but in all logic it is both. Dance is an expression of emotion, as art or any artist does, but dance requires physical ability to express this emotion. If dancers are considered athletes then how come dance isn't considered a sport. Dance is both an expression, an art, as well as a sport. (456)
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Staying Consistant
As competition season ends, at least for me anyway. I only compete through my school and our competitions are over, but I know studio competitions are just beginning. We still have practices to get ready for basketball games, but what I've learned with the shorter practices and less strenuous workouts is that I still need to push myself. I still need to push myself so I don't lose my endurance even though we're not competing anymore.
I need to keep stretching and working out. I need to be consistent.if I stop stretching and pushing myself then I'm eventually going to lose my flexibility and all the skills I've worked to hard to get. I want to continue to keep moving forward, not go back. I don't don't want to decrease in skill just because I'm lazy and don't feel motivated to keep up on my workouts. I want to be able to be at my peak, to be at my very best and stay at my best as long as I can.
What you choose to do now affects you later. I don't want to have to relearn certain moves later just because I didn't work on them now. You can always improve and working to improve will only make you better. So stay consistent with your work outs and routines, whether it's you're stretching habits or eating routines. Keep it consistent so you can only improve and get better. It's never too early to start training for the next season.
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I need to keep stretching and working out. I need to be consistent.if I stop stretching and pushing myself then I'm eventually going to lose my flexibility and all the skills I've worked to hard to get. I want to continue to keep moving forward, not go back. I don't don't want to decrease in skill just because I'm lazy and don't feel motivated to keep up on my workouts. I want to be able to be at my peak, to be at my very best and stay at my best as long as I can.
What you choose to do now affects you later. I don't want to have to relearn certain moves later just because I didn't work on them now. You can always improve and working to improve will only make you better. So stay consistent with your work outs and routines, whether it's you're stretching habits or eating routines. Keep it consistent so you can only improve and get better. It's never too early to start training for the next season.
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Why Perform At Basketball games
At my school, the dance team performs at half time during basketball games. We don't perform at all the games but at a few we do. It's really fun and exciting to perform at games because it's more relaxed than competitions. It's still nerve racking to have your classmates stare at you and watch you but it's more fun to perform for people you know than just a random group of judges.
Entertainment during the halftime of basketball games is important because it gives us an opportunity to perform but also let's other people see what the dance team is and what we can do. To show what we've worked so hard on and for. People only really associate the dance team with basketball games or pep assembly's . They don't ever watch or care about our competitions because they're not at school or on school days. It's good to get people aware of the dance team so we can be supported just like every other sport and to get people aware so we can get sponsors and such to support financially.
It's good to show off occasionally especially if you're really proud of something, but it's also the dance teams job and as a dancer to entertain and to perform for people. So performing at basketball games is very necessary for the dance team and for the dancer. It gives and gains more performing experience for the whole team, as well as each individual dancer. Basketball games are super fun and easy to perfo at. It's a relaxed time for the dancers, at my school anyways, because the competitions are done and it's a nice reward for a hard season. At our basketball games we perform the routines we've been competing and working on for the majority of the year, but also learn new routines to perform as well. We learn a hip hop to perform at a basketball games and that's a little bit more relaxed than performing our competition routines. In all performing is our job and entertaining is our goal.
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Entertainment during the halftime of basketball games is important because it gives us an opportunity to perform but also let's other people see what the dance team is and what we can do. To show what we've worked so hard on and for. People only really associate the dance team with basketball games or pep assembly's . They don't ever watch or care about our competitions because they're not at school or on school days. It's good to get people aware of the dance team so we can be supported just like every other sport and to get people aware so we can get sponsors and such to support financially.
It's good to show off occasionally especially if you're really proud of something, but it's also the dance teams job and as a dancer to entertain and to perform for people. So performing at basketball games is very necessary for the dance team and for the dancer. It gives and gains more performing experience for the whole team, as well as each individual dancer. Basketball games are super fun and easy to perfo at. It's a relaxed time for the dancers, at my school anyways, because the competitions are done and it's a nice reward for a hard season. At our basketball games we perform the routines we've been competing and working on for the majority of the year, but also learn new routines to perform as well. We learn a hip hop to perform at a basketball games and that's a little bit more relaxed than performing our competition routines. In all performing is our job and entertaining is our goal.
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Well-Rounded Dancer
Being a well rounded dancer can only benefit you. Both in the long and short term. Being a well rounded dancer can help you in many aspects of dance. It can help in your dancing ability physically, but also can help in your memory and experience as well when being a dancer. When I say being a well rounded dancer, I mean you are able to dance different styles of dance and accomplish different moves of dance not just categorized to one form or style of dance.
Short term benefits of being a well rounded dancer consist of your ability to pick up or learn choreography and dances easier and faster. You are exposed to the different styles of dance and have been exposed to different instructors and ways of teaching so when you're taught a dance or routine its easier for you to pick it up. Your experiences are important when being a well rounded dancer because whatever you may be taught in a dance or routine you may have done that same move in another dance. Knowing how to execute that specific move or moves correctly and properly will enable you to remember and learn the dance quicker. You'll be able to correctly perform the dance sooner because you won't have to spend or waste your time on learning moves you have never done before.
Long term benefits of being a well rounded dance is that of just being able to use your muscles properly, giving yourself a bigger and strong self awareness of the muscles your using and how to use them. Different styles of dance will work different muscles and parts of your body. This will make you stronger and will benefit each dance you're apart of, if that's a performance or just a class. Being able to dance different dance styles will also help in becoming a professional dancer if that is your goal. Being able to dance and transition from different dance styles to another will increase your chance of getting a part in a dance or performance professionally. You'll need to focus on whatever dance you're going into but being well rounded and having that diversity of style will only benefit you.
You can only get stronger and having a diverse dance background will help you in any dance you're learning or performing in. Being well rounded can only benefit you for your dance future and career. Helping you in every style and dance you're involved with. Having that experience and awareness of different styles can only help in your ability to become the best dancer you can be.
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Short term benefits of being a well rounded dancer consist of your ability to pick up or learn choreography and dances easier and faster. You are exposed to the different styles of dance and have been exposed to different instructors and ways of teaching so when you're taught a dance or routine its easier for you to pick it up. Your experiences are important when being a well rounded dancer because whatever you may be taught in a dance or routine you may have done that same move in another dance. Knowing how to execute that specific move or moves correctly and properly will enable you to remember and learn the dance quicker. You'll be able to correctly perform the dance sooner because you won't have to spend or waste your time on learning moves you have never done before.
Long term benefits of being a well rounded dance is that of just being able to use your muscles properly, giving yourself a bigger and strong self awareness of the muscles your using and how to use them. Different styles of dance will work different muscles and parts of your body. This will make you stronger and will benefit each dance you're apart of, if that's a performance or just a class. Being able to dance different dance styles will also help in becoming a professional dancer if that is your goal. Being able to dance and transition from different dance styles to another will increase your chance of getting a part in a dance or performance professionally. You'll need to focus on whatever dance you're going into but being well rounded and having that diversity of style will only benefit you.
You can only get stronger and having a diverse dance background will help you in any dance you're learning or performing in. Being well rounded can only benefit you for your dance future and career. Helping you in every style and dance you're involved with. Having that experience and awareness of different styles can only help in your ability to become the best dancer you can be.
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